Cues for hunger that come from a variety of physiological changes in the body and neurological changes in the brain.
What are biological hunger actors?
100
A desire to set challenging
goals and to persist longer
at tasks, showing better
performance on tasks, activities,
and exams and being
attracted to careers that
require initiative.
What is high
need for achievement?
100
A feeling made up of
four components: appraising
a stimulus,
subjective experience,
physiological arousal,
and observable behavior.
What is an
emotion?
100
This theory says that if
you see a bear, you run
and then become afraid.
Answer: What is the
James-Lange theory?
200
Innate biological forces that
predispose an animal to
behave in a fixed way in the
presence of a specific
environmental condition.
Answer: What is a fixed action pattern?
200
Refers to a person who
is 20% or more overweight.
What is obesity
200
A personality test that was
used to measure the need
for achievement.
What is the Thematic
Apperception Test
or TAT?
200
Emotions that are recognized
in most cultures
and help the species
survive.
What are
universal emotions?
200
This theory says that,
with the passage of
time, we habituate or
take pleasures for
granted.
What is the
adaptation level
theory?
300
A biological state in which the organism lacks something essential for survival.
What is a need?
300
Cues that come from associations
we make between
eating and various
stimuli in our
environment.
What are psychosocial
hunger factors?
300
A tendency to make up an
excuse for one’s failure.
What is selfhandicapping
300
This theory states that
our brains interpret
changes in physiological
arousal as feelings
or emotions.
What is the
James-Lange
theory?
300
A steady diet of
simple pleasures has
a greater effect on
this than big environmental
events (eg,
lottery).
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Daily Double
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What is Happiness?
400
External stimuli, reinforcers,
goals, or rewards that may
be positive or negative and
that motivate one’s behavior.
What is an incentive
400
One of the major cues
for being hungry
comes from a drop in
the level of this substance
in the blood.
What is glucose
(blood sugar)?
400
Shown by people who
choose easy, non-challenging
tasks.
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Daily Double
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What is fear of
failure?
400
This theory states that
feedback from facial
movement gives rise to
emotions.
What is the
facial feedback
theory?
400
They injected subjects
with an arousing
hormone and then
placed the subjects in
an “angry” or “happy”
setting.
Who were
Schachter and
Singer?
500
This influences us to
perform behaviors because
the behaviors
themselves are personally
rewarding.
What is intrinsic
motivation?
500
This area of the brain is
involved in initiating feelings
of being full.
What is the
ventromedial nucleus
of the hypothalamus?
500
Someone who scores relatively
high on tests of ability
or intelligence but performs
more poorly than their
scores would predict.
What is an underachiever
500
This theory states that
your interpretation or
appraisal of a situation
can contribute to your
subjective feelings.
This theory states that
What is the
cognitive appraisal
theory?
500
Subjects’ physiological
responses to these
kinds of questions are
recorded and interpreted
by the polygraph.